A series of activities and content for exploring the sounds of English

Goals

Understand the difference between phonetics and phonology

Explore the ways that we can write sounds down, using the phonetic alphabet

Apply this knowledge to a text and consider some of the stylistic effects of sound choices

Lesson Plan

This lesson plan is split into sections, and includes enough material for around 3 hours of teaching: (1) a starter activity (group discussion); (2) an explanation of phonetics and phonology; (3) vowels; (4) consonants; (5) a transcription exercise; (6) exploring the sounds of poetry.

Materials

You will need a copy of the English phonetic alphabet (available as an attachment to this page).

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